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wry insight

nickyskye — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:04:32 -0800

Roz Chast, noted New Yorker cartoonist with a penchant for sly wordplay, interviewed [embedded video] by Steve Martin. [more inside]

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:08:35 -0800

Roz Chast book covers, including her latest anthology, Theories of Everything. She picks five books you'd better hide from the kids. A vintage 1980's Roz Chast interview.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:29:28 -0800

Nice post nickyskye, thanks!

By: jckll

jckll — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:33:56 -0800

Great video.

By: Bezbozhnik

Bezbozhnik — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:44:03 -0800

Double, mostly

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:08:35 -0800

Good find nonetheless.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:09:31 -0800

drat, Googled and Yahoo Searched, couldn't find a front page post on her at MetaFilter and I think that particular interview is worth it. Roz Chast is such a marvellous cartoonist-writer, perhaps my "more inside" can be used as part of the FPP?

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:18:47 -0800

marvelous stuff, nickyskye - you have solved some of my remaining "what to get for x" dilemmas - thank you! After all, what's a better gift than laughter. I hadn't seen the prior post so I am glad to see those New Yorker festival interviews surface for a second chance. Plus, I think you have added enough to this one to make it stand on its own two legs, imo. Nice afternoon break in a hectic season!

By: Flashman

Flashman — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:27:44 -0800

Yes, just in time for Christmas - thanks

By: ericb

ericb — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:33:18 -0800

New York Times, October 2006: At Home with Roz Chast.

By: joeblough

joeblough — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:04:02 -0800

great find, thanks a lot. off to amazon!

By: jamjam

jamjam — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:29:49 -0800

I have wondered what she looks like for such a long time, but she is so much more like I imagined than I ever could have imagined.

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:58:53 -0800

I have wondered what she looks like for such a long time I never really thought about this, but she looks to me exactly like someone drawn by Edward Koren. And she seems like a very nice, funny person in real life as well as in print. (I was surprised to find that, despite her having been in The New Yorker for almost 30 years now, I'm older than she is.) Thanks for the post. The video was a pleasant way to avoid work I should be doing.

By: feloniousmonk

feloniousmonk — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:24:42 -0800

Christ, what an asshole.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:45:57 -0800

jamjam and lelilo I too wondered what she looked like and was amused to see she really looks like her cartoons.

By: joeblough

joeblough — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:21:39 -0800

feloniousmonk wins the thread!